chorro
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See also: choro
Romani
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chorro (feminine chorri, plural chorre)
- Anglicized form of ćorro
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]chorro m (plural chorros)
- flow; jet
- tap; faucet
- (colloquial, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic) ton, tons; bunch; pile
- Synonym: montón
- (colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador) diarrhea
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: jorro
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Romani ćorro (“poor”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
[edit]chorro m (plural chorros)
- (Chile, slang) a poor person, ghetto, a criminal
- (Chile, colloquial) coin purse
- (Argentina, colloquial, Lunfardo) thief
Further reading
[edit]- “chorro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “chorro” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish colloquialisms
- Mexican Spanish
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